The Twenty-Sixth Republic -Half Term Horror?

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Do not give ‘The Every twat for Themselves mob’ the staffroom password as a number of them are operating in an alternative reality.

No DfE muppets allowed

Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the toffee vodka is hidden.

If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

Welcome! It's safe in here... and we have inexhaustible supplies of snacks and drinks although I might have finished three different bottles of gin last night

Hi Smile

Does anyone want to go all EastEnders on me and hold me back from engaging with our Scottish friend?
_" leave it aaaht, he's not worf it"

There's some bottles kicking around behind the photocopier if you want to go full on pub brawl...

Does anyone want to go all EastEnders on me and hold me back from engaging with our Scottish friend?

No, but I’ll hold your coat for you?

Right, I'm going in!

🤗 to all on this (in the Midlands anyway...) sunny Sunday, at end/middle beginning of some time off.

whynot good luck

Just announced all secondary schools to go online for the next month in Italy.

I think we should be all on line in January - that month is a grind anyway - possible snow days

Online January is a great shout.

Get mocks done in December. Then 6 week circuit break when combined with Christmas. Even if households mix its still less risky than schools being open.

I think we may all be online before January. Secondary at least.

I was just reminiscing about our rain day - on the train to work, torrential rain like the end of the world was nigh, text from the head closing school. We all got off at the next station and headed home - along with the head of a school in the town where I work! The bus companies had said they weren't going to risk it.

“Online January” should just be a thing anyway, pandemic aside.

Like Dry January, but less shit.

@TheHoneyBadger - 4 kids, 3 year groups in this house. Our only saving grace is I think I could share one lot of lessons to the tv so the twins could work in the lounge. Dd would be fine on her iPad as long as she didn't need flash player and ds1 would have the laptop. Getting work done in the same room would be impossible as the kids wouldn't hear what was going on in their own lessons too well.

I know one of the issues from zoom meetings for the kids was bedrooms are out of bounds. So on top of tech and space, if you've not enough living space, you would also be screwed. Our old house had one lounge, a small kitchen and 2 bedrooms. No way would we have coped with lockdown or online les ring there.

*“Online January” should just be a thing anyway, pandemic aside.

Like Dry January, but less shit.*

I gave my homemade blackcurrant gin a pasting on Friday. It tastes dangerously like ribenna.

I've done nothing today bar wash and hang out some laundry. I did catch myself checking my work email but didn't linger and just starred things I might have to look at.

I don't believe in dry any month. Online January I could get behind though :)

[quote monkeytennis97]@RigaBalsam He is generally dreadful. A few months ago he shouted at someone who was stating a point very coherently and in a balanced way (can't remember what it was about but got a feeling it was a disability issue). AC was awful. I remember thinking I hope Ofqual get complaints about how he dealt with that afterwards... I was always very meh about him before, but was really shocked. Usually do beige as a presenter. Not surprised he didn't challenge us4ourselves lot the minute anyone says MH they all get scared and their wokeness strangles their voice boxes.[/quote]
So very true.

We have just been to lay teddy's at our local mps office in protest over the meals.

I'm not sure about online January. I hate that term, it's so dark and there's nothing to look forward to.

We are not having a Halloween disco (no complaints here) and are having own clothes Friday. No costumes to be worn. Anyone like to guess how many complaints we will get this week?

It is probably the fault of schools that Halloween is cancelled. The u4t crazies are busy making wax effigies if teaching staff to burn in gardens instead whilst chanting ‘don’t ever forget Johnnie that the horrible Mrs Staff robbed you of Halloween in 2020, depriving you of your childhood!’

Staff just wait until you cancel Christmas 😱
I hope you're all enjoying your weekend, and have recovered from your impromptu "pub" evening.
May there be one or two more this week...🍻🍾

@monkeytennis97

Urgh the us for ourselves lot are going all guns blazing on Twitter for Ferguson suggesting closing school for some older year groups. Urgh.

The problem with Ferguson is he's saying things they don't want to hear. He's not like Sikora who's saying the right things or Heneghan/Spiegelhalter whose tweets can be twisted to say the right things.

Apart from the breaking lockdown thing, as far as I can see his models are only discredited by fuckwits on social media.

How many of your parents might be MNers, Dolly. Might be a significant factor in the number of complaints.

Complaint about not having a disco
complaint about it being halloween
complaint about no costumes
complaint about non-uniform

But no complaints about costumes.

Teaching live lessons come what may now. If we're in we're broadcasting to anyone isolating at home, if a year group is isolating (fat chance as we're only sending the kid they sit next to) we're live lessons and if everyone is home we'll be doing all live lessons. Which will be super inefficient for me as I have multiple classes in the same year groups. Training has consisted of one hour from someone who had tried it once with one of her classes and knew less than me.

Never been so stressed it just seems like so much to think about.

I like the idea of leaving teddies outside Tory MPs' offices. Ours is abysmal. He's looks like and is the most appalling sycophant, and as we have a Senedd Member anyway I don't see the point in him.

I saw on twitter some people leaving empty plates outside Tory HQ which I also really liked.

Teaching live lessons come what may now. If we're in we're broadcasting to anyone isolating at home, if a year group is isolating (fat chance as we're only sending the kid they sit next to) we're live lessons and if everyone is home we'll be doing all live lessons

Really inefficient. We’re uploading all class materials to Teams for any individuals who are out, of a year group is out we’re live teaching in their TT slit, if a teacher is isolating but well they’re live teaching in with a cover teacher wrangling the kids.